Bands/Artists that everyone else loves and you just don't get...

[YokoUhOh]

The music press always rave about Arcade Fire: they are utterly without merit as far as I can tell. Emperor's New Clothes. They sound like New Order, you say? Not in their wildest dreams with a 60ft pole. Finking, frugging, hippy-dip, tuneless shite. I feel the same about Editors and Mumford & Sons. Pasty, sweaty men with guitars and limited record collections, the lot of them; whenever I hear them I channel Adam Ant pulling a huge jukebox plug out of the wall in the Antmusic video.

Thank you for allowing me to get this off my chest

:)

Mumford and Sons... the trust fund wurzels

The Beatles
The Specials
Coldplay
Kings of fucking Leon

Quite like Arcade Fire although baffled by the New Order Comparison

Do you like Half Man Half Biscuit by any chance JoyDivisionOvenGloves? :)

Rhino name me your favourite bands and I'll explain how they were influenced by The Beatles :)

Rihanna
One direction
Beyonce
Florence and the machine
Micheal buble (he's charming and sings nicely n all but his new song sounds v v v similar to his last one)

the beatles. They were in the right place at the right time. that is all.

Amy winehouse.

How did you guess?

That annoys me too, Rhino. To follow through on my promise, here is the 'first ever hard rock song' by The Beatles (Macca, actually):

m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=ueBUFUWSXHs

(I don't think it's hard rock, either, bit that's what people say it is...)

I like dub reggae, Stone Roses, Otis Redding, Duran Duran, Northern Soul and One Direction, does that mean I'm just confused?

Agree about Arcade Fire and Muse, although I like Mumford and Sons.

Also don't get/can't stand:

• the fucking Smiths. Not that funny or that clever and the music's meh.
• the fucking Manics. Studenty-politics idiots.
• Kraftwerk. I can't think of anywhere I'd like to be less than that wankfest they did at Tate Modern recently.
• the Rolling Stones. Just retire. It's embarrassing now.
• John Grant. Dull chugging mid-tempo music and oh-so-clever lyrics that aren't, really.

Oh, and the Stone Bloody Roses can piss off too. Whiny voice, jangly teeth-itching guitar, terrible clothes and worse hair.

Take That I just don't get it Dull Dull Dull

Arcade Fire
Muse
Radiohead
Florence and the Machine (I find her voice unlistenable)
U2

Pretty much all posh white boy bedwetter bannds like Keane and Athlete and all that shite.

Oh and I doubt everyone else loves them but I study in Wales and they all love the Stereophonics - who are literally the shittest band ever to exist.

Super Furries on the other hand are ace.

SecondComing, no, I'm just not of the same opinion as you. 'Dude'.

I LOVE Arcade Fire. I'm shocked, shocked i tell ya.

Agree with Manic Street Preachers though.

Bob Dylan. Yes, he can write and great tune and great lyrics, but his voice!!!!!! Oh my God, whine whine whine whine whine. With a bit of nasal thrown in.

Most modern vacuous R 'n' B.

Stop slagging off Muse, they are amazing even if they've gone a bit weird lately.

Agree with U2 though, they had about one good song. Actually most of the bands mentioned here have one or two good songs and the rest is pants.

But it would be a dull old world as they say.

Jacey are you me? Love SFA, totally underrated band. Stereophonics: Dakota is a great FM radio record, the rest is shite.

Lots of people have a terribly high tolerance for the pasty-White-male-guitars-seriousface-lovejoydivisionme bands, of which there are MILLIONS. I hate them all: give me something like Kraftwerk or Prince or just anything apart from another boring guitar band.

SecondComing think you'll find that the Roses have more in common with The Fab Four than the Rolling Stones. Also, Roses fans (of which I am one) seem to ignore the lineage: the Ian Brown Under The Influence record is full of stuff like Cymande. The Roses mostly listened to 'black' music (wasn't it Geno Washington who told Brownie to be a singer?)